Mark Fell & Will Guthrie: Infoldings
Outstanding, extended, Gamelan works reminiscent, non-linear drumming rhythm explorations
"‘Infoldings’ combines synthesis and sinew in unpredictable, pointillist arrangements where Guthrie plays against patterns derived from Max MSP patches by Fell. The album’s two tracks
are in this sense different to the man-machine concept of Fell’s acclaimed ‘Intra’ album, where
he triggered performances by Portugal’s Drumming Grupo De Percussão to play a metallophone designed by Iannis Xenakis. Here, the pair find common/contrasting purpose in a probing of the rhythmic signatures of Gamelan and South Indian Carnatic musics, with groundbreaking, unusual results.
Recorded at HFG, Karlsruhe (where Fell is guest professor), and finished later in respective isolation, the two pieces were edited from iterations of call-and-response between Fell’s rhythmic patterns and Guthrie’s overdubs. They effectively propose beguiling and convincing solutions to electronic music’s problems with grid-lock, using illusive generative processing that appears to make physical actions seem unfeasibly effortless, while melting the computer’s clock to a real- time, free-hand syncopation."
Mark Fell & Will Guthrie: Infoldings / Diffractions
Outstanding, extended, Gamelan works reminiscent, non-linear drumming rhythm explorations
Infoldings 1 | 19:38 | AIFF € 2.50MP3 € 1.75 |
Infoldings 2 | 18:57 | AIFF € 2.50MP3 € 1.75 |
Diffractions 1 | 19:16 | AIFF € 2.50MP3 € 1.75 |
Diffractions 2 | 17:51 | AIFF € 2.50MP3 € 1.75 |
"‘Infoldings’ combines synthesis and sinew in unpredictable, pointillist arrangements where Guthrie plays against patterns derived from Max MSP patches by Fell. The album’s two tracks
are in this sense different to the man-machine concept of Fell’s acclaimed ‘Intra’ album, where
he triggered performances by Portugal’s Drumming Grupo De Percussão to play a metallophone designed by Iannis Xenakis. Here, the pair find common/contrasting purpose in a probing of the rhythmic signatures of Gamelan and South Indian Carnatic musics, with groundbreaking, unusual results.
Recorded at HFG, Karlsruhe (where Fell is guest professor), and finished later in respective isolation, the two pieces were edited from iterations of call-and-response between Fell’s rhythmic patterns and Guthrie’s overdubs. They effectively propose beguiling and convincing solutions to electronic music’s problems with grid-lock, using illusive generative processing that appears to make physical actions seem unfeasibly effortless, while melting the computer’s clock to a real- time, free-hand syncopation."